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Tyler Arnot took a semester off to work in Sudan for Save the Children. While there he met vulnerable students with little opportunity for education. One was extremely talented and motivated but also a starving orphan. Tyler contacted friends at Skidmore to host a fundraiser; students donated enough money to send the boy and two others to boarding school in Uganda. Upon his return Tyler and two friends founded the South Sudan Scholarship Foundation, which provides funds for vulnerable Sudanese students to attend boarding schools in more stable environments. Visit www.southsudan­sf.org or contact Tyler at tyler@southsudansf.org.

Continuing a 19-year Skidmore tradition, Nick Collins-Feay, Eliza Rosler, Carrie von Glahn, Olivia Janczyk, Lucy Crouppen, and Rachel Schulman are spending their first postgrad year teaching English at Chinese colleges. Follow their first-hand chronicles of the experience at www.skidmorechinadiary.blogspot.com.

Kyle Carey is doing Fulbright-funded research on folk music in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Do a search in MySpace.com to find her blog.

Joseph Kaifala is coordinator for Jeneba Project (http://jenebaproject.wordpress.
com), a nonprofit that’s raising money to fund the construction of a four-room high school in Masoila, Sierra Leone, one of the poorest countries in the world. A native of Sierra Leone, Joseph has been giving back to his home country by raising funds and providing project management for the construction of several school buildings and a library, among other things. Along the way, he has attracted the support of Peter Brock ’09 and Catherine Cantwell. Joseph is traveling on a fellowship with the Monterey Institute of Nuclear Non-Proliferation in Monterey, CA, which is affiliated with Middlebury College.